BSc (Hons), Grad Cert Statistics.
- Enhancing quantitative data sources with qualitative research to enrich data story telling.
- Supporting ethical data linkage and data integration to make the most of existing data sources.
- Helping people to better understand the inherent uncertainty associated with population forecasts so they can make informed decisions for policy, planning, and infrastructure and business investments.
- Visualising data to aid understanding and to make statistics more accessible.
With a previous career spanning more than 20 years with the Australian Bureau of Statistics, Fiona Shalley is an experienced data practitioner. This experience has included 2011 Census data collection management in Northern Australia, national household survey design, complex data processing activities, and statistical analysis and publication. Fiona has had particular interest in data about and for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, being the immediate past Director of the National Centre for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Statistics. She is passionate about helping people to access and use the extensive ABS data holdings and has run workshops aimed at encouraging Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander researchers to gain quantitative data skills.
Fiona has worked with the CDU Office of the Pro Vice Chancellor – Indigenous Leadership, on Indigenous student access to higher education, and has co-authored a report providing a statistical overview of Aboriginal adult English literacy and numeracy skills in the Northern Territory.
Fiona is currently leading the myterritoryconnections.cdu.edu.au research project.